PS4 more popular over Xbox One

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbhXt4hS1z0_r_hJ8KNGy_v1mESRwtlryh_Wo7ErZZftvpRhRP0BK5853uJo0XA0OvelnjYGQHneCJC6xet4pzj0i5dpsJ7lUo78O0jvUZ7g2E7hXaIpaIIlgY5kTc5M51BttJpUyAO0/s1600/collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbhXt4hS1z0_r_hJ8KNGy_v1mESRwtlryh_Wo7ErZZftvpRhRP0BK5853uJo0XA0OvelnjYGQHneCJC6xet4pzj0i5dpsJ7lUo78O0jvUZ7g2E7hXaIpaIIlgY5kTc5M51BttJpUyAO0/s1600/collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">These two video game consoles, PS4 and Xbox One arrived on 15th November and the other launching a week later. Both Sony and Microsoft utilized E3 to show off their new hardware, but many would argue it was Microsoft’s wishy-washy positions on policies like used games and DRM that dominated the buzz around the Xbox One. Meanwhile, Sony has been capitalizing on Microsoft’s blunders, reassuring gamers that they’ve learned their lessons from the PS3, and have promised to be more games focused with the PS4.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Both of them are very impressive machines, Sony pricing the PS4 $100 less than the Xbox One has made a huge impact on gamers, and proof that Sony has learned from the PS3. The Xbox One does include the Kinect 2.0 sensor, but most people aren’t likely to pay $100 more to wave their hands and talk to their televisions. </span></div> </div> <script src="//www.google.com/trends/embed.js?hl=en-US&q=ps4,+xbox+one&date=1/2013+12m&cmpt=q&content=1&cid=TIMESERIES_GRAPH_0&export=5&w=500&h=330" type="text/javascript"></script><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: none;"> You can see the the results of the comparison from the above graph search. The above trends shows that people are more interested in Sony's PS4 over Microsoft's XBox One. But surveys and comparison are just formalities. You can choose any one of them. Both of them have their own Pros & Cons. Ultimately its your choice to select among the two. So what did/will you choose among the two? PS4 or XBox One?<br /> Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. </div> </div>

PS4 more popular over Xbox One

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PS 4 vs Xbox One: Comparison

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2WBYXxAmpyX7ENSYkrFXvvmc_AV8bRZQUKHJjIX94T_kjdRQj4U3d2wW2kQ7hW48-5ahDOvUyRxxR06Sts8qfkW5cacyXRHZPRa4epgq4e3UN6bRWKjSC-DDCJYvlm3aZOKEq3jGTOrY/s1600/sony_ps4_large-670.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2WBYXxAmpyX7ENSYkrFXvvmc_AV8bRZQUKHJjIX94T_kjdRQj4U3d2wW2kQ7hW48-5ahDOvUyRxxR06Sts8qfkW5cacyXRHZPRa4epgq4e3UN6bRWKjSC-DDCJYvlm3aZOKEq3jGTOrY/s400/sony_ps4_large-670.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">After two exciting events at the E3 gaming conference from </span>Microsoft<span style="line-height: 20px;"> and </span>Sony<span style="line-height: 20px;"> that revealed a slew of details about their forthcoming gaming consoles, we now know how both the <a href="http://www.mobiledoctors.co/2013/06/sony-launches-new-play-station-aka-ps-4.html"><span style="color: purple;">PS4</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.mobiledoctors.co/2013/05/xbox-one-gaming-redefined.html"><span style="color: blue;">Xbox One</span> </a>hardware look like. The battle of the new generation gaming consoles is certainly on. Based on what we know about the two consoles, here is our detailed comparison between the two.</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><b>Specs:</b></span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" border="1" style="height: 603px; width: 613px;"> <tbody> <tr> <th height="34" scope="col" width="183"><div align="center"> Specs</div> </th> <th scope="col" width="207"><div align="center"> Play Station 4 </div> </th> <th scope="col" width="201"><div align="center"> Xbox One </div> </th> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> GPU</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> 8- Core AMD </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> 8- Core AMD </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="31" scope="row"><div align="center"> Hard Drive </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> 500 GB ; Cloud Storage </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> 500 GB ; Cloud Storage</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> Motion Control </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> No</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Yes ; Kinect Included </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="30" scope="row"><div align="center"> Blu - Ray </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> RAM</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> 8GB GDDR5 </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> 8GB GDDR3 </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="30" scope="row"><div align="center"> USB</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Yes ; USB 3.0 </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Yes ; USB 3.0 </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="31" scope="row"><div align="center"> Wireless</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Wireless N </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Wireless N ; WiFi Direct </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> Voice Commands </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> TBD</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> Second Screen </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Vital</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Smartglass</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> Ethernet</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> HDMI</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="32" scope="row"><div align="center"> Bluetooth</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> 2.1 ( EDR ) </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> No</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="32" scope="row"><div align="center"> Plays Older Games </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Yes</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> No</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="45" scope="row"><div align="center"> Internet Connection Required </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> No</div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Once Every 24 Hours </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="36" scope="row"><div align="center"> Online Multiplayer </div> </th> <td><div align="center"> Paid Playstation Plus Required </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> Paid Xbox Live Sub. Required </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th height="33" scope="row"><div align="center"> Price</div> </th> <td><div align="center"> $ 399 </div> </td> <td><div align="center"> $ 499 </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br /><br /><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hardware:</span></b><br /> <b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 house very similar silicon inside their respective bodies, with a few key differences.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to an <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-spec-analysis-xbox-one" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exhaustive analysis</a> by Digital Foundry, the biggest difference between the two systems' hardware is the type of RAM each uses.<span style="line-height: 20px;">The PS4 comes with an 8-core Jaguar CPU, 500GB hard drive, 8GB of unified memory, built-in Blu-Ray drive and the new DualShock 4 controller. The Xbox One on the other hand comes with a 500GB hard drive, a similar 8-core Jaguar CPU, 8GB RAM, a Blu-ray player, built-in Wi-Fi, the new Kinect and one Xbox One Wireless Controller. On the hardware front, the specifications of the two certainly are extremely similar.</span></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the new DualShock 4 happens to be Sony's strength here, the new Kinect will certainly put points on Microsoft's scoreboard. The DualShock 4 which was first showcased in February comes with a capacitive touchpad along with a headphone jack in the controller. It also has a lightbar that can be utilised for identifying players as well as create a 3D gaming environment.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new Kinect on the other hand comes with voice recognition and happens to be always 'listening'. It is now certainly for more than just motion gaming.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: Advantage PS 4</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <h3 style="background-color: white; line-height: 1em; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pre-owned Games:</span></h3> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another huge win for Sony comes in the realm of used games. Where Microsoft is allowing publishers the right to set their own rules with regards to allowing them to be re-sold, Sony is doing no such thing.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pre-owned games will work on the PS4 just as they do with the PS3 and the PS2. You can lend a game to a friend simply by handing them the disc.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, with Xbox One, you can only lend a game to a person you've had in your Xbox live friends list for longer than 30 days, and you can only do it once. This could lead to reduced availability and/or increased prices for pre-owned titles, though it's hard to predict how it will all shake down when the consoles and games finally go on sale.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"We designed the Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers," said Microsoft on the</span><a href="http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/license" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Xbox site</a><span style="background-color: white;">. "Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games."</span> </span></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: PS 4</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <b style="outline-style: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gaming Titles:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <b style="outline-style: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of the hardware and the power inside, what matters most is the content. A gaming console is no good without the game. As far as gaming is concerned, both the companies claim that the consoles come with some really good titles.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the E3 a couple of these titles were showcased. Sony showcased games like Killzone: Shadow Fall, InFamous: Second Son and the racing game Drive Club. It also announced that the upcoming games lineup for PS4 from software developers and publishers will include games such as Destiny, Diablo III, Kingdom Hearts III, Final Fantasy XV, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Watch Dogs, NBA 2K14 from 2K Sports, The Elder Scrolls Online and many more totalling more than 110 titles.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xbox One will be welcoming games such as the historical third-person game Ryse: Son of Rome, Killer Instinct, Minecraft, Project Spark and a new instalment of popular sci-fi game Halo. With Cloud computing being the major focus, Microsoft showcased third-person open-world games like the zombie-fighting sequel Dead Rising 3 and Sunset Overdrive. Titles such as the racing game Forza MotorSport 5 and multiplayer shooter Titanfall will also come to the Xbox One.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: PS 4</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cloud storage:</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While being on the cloud is good thing for keeping your data in-sync and creating real-time virtual communities, restricting your device to the cloud and more importantly the Internet is certainly not a wise move. This happens to be exactly where Microsoft went wrong again. Microsoft's Xbox One offers only 24 hours of offline gaming. After the time period, the device needs to be reconnected to the Internet. This factor remains no matter what form your game is in - on the cloud or in a disc.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sony PS4 on the other hand stays true to the original tradition of gaming. While there are a host of features for the cloud and there are functionalities that let you record a game and upload the video in real-time with an option for you to take the controller of a friend across the continent, that is not where it ends. You need not connect to the Internet every 24 hours and can play games without it for as long as you want. While there are modern features as well, the traditional disc based gaming has been retained.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft also announced that it will be doing away with the Microsoft points system for online purchases with its Xbox Live online service, opting instead for local currency.</span></div> </div> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict:  PS 4</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Requirements:</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you feel strongly about your computer authenticating online every 24 hours, or lending physical copies of games, you basically just want the PS4. Sony bent over backwards to ensure its policies mirror the current generation as much as possible, to raucous applause. And there's certainly no need for an always-on PS Eye, like the turn-offable-but-still-usually-on Kinect.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll be missing out on very cool features like the aforementioned license trade-ins, as well as sneaky wonderful things like being able to turn your console on without touching a controller, but for many, that's simply not a concern with a gaming console.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: PS 4</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Controller:</span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6f7c0NUdOpyxawr3P6NDd3uM0atZ9GnRuK3eolqexLwgGP0HTVOvuzX1_H3nGhTvQmmZO6hSU77mvtANYBTqZ5sKHFYsk_74hLd5MxX8cpzw3p7sJ1HOXF-RlTib0seiFvMqQ07d8f94/s1600/xbox-one-vs-ps4-580-75.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6f7c0NUdOpyxawr3P6NDd3uM0atZ9GnRuK3eolqexLwgGP0HTVOvuzX1_H3nGhTvQmmZO6hSU77mvtANYBTqZ5sKHFYsk_74hLd5MxX8cpzw3p7sJ1HOXF-RlTib0seiFvMqQ07d8f94/s400/xbox-one-vs-ps4-580-75.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On one hand, the Xbox One's controller feels fabulous to hold, and the rumbling triggers are so very much cooler than they should be. They're going to make a big difference. But on sheer potential, Sony's built-in capacitive touchpad, and PlayStation Vita as a (rather expensive) PS4 controller, might be hard to beat.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PlayStation controller leaving its analog/d-pad layout unchanged, and no matter how comfortable the rest of it is (which is very!), that's a big downer. More to the point, since the Kinect 2 comes bundled with the Xbox One, it should also be included as a default feature of the "controller." The technology in the new Kinect is truly mind-blowing. It's still probably not really for gaming, outside of some specific examples like dance games, but as a means of controlling your system-level commands, it's a massive advantage. One that Sony can't touch.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict:: Xbox One</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <h3 style="background-color: white; line-height: 1em; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Xbox One Kinect vs PS4 Eye:</span></h3> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiG2zHOWg6wj_voBsdpDJ1EGDLUJ6EeeVNFMBFxlJzZCprro2RlgmNoNsOs9IlPLhEP0oyKQI4ZSLEdZjJO4c1d5G8DGF3MYgwTq6CXasDZnoihyphenhyphen_2UW_KQi4qPO4PUlNRg4f6dm4oppL/s1600/xbox-one-kinect-vs-ps4-eye-580-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiG2zHOWg6wj_voBsdpDJ1EGDLUJ6EeeVNFMBFxlJzZCprro2RlgmNoNsOs9IlPLhEP0oyKQI4ZSLEdZjJO4c1d5G8DGF3MYgwTq6CXasDZnoihyphenhyphen_2UW_KQi4qPO4PUlNRg4f6dm4oppL/s400/xbox-one-kinect-vs-ps4-eye-580-100.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will appeal to "core" gamers with mature launch titles, Microsoft and Sony are charging forward with motion-sensing devices.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xbox One Kinect was unveiled along with the system during the May 21 announcement, when Microsoft refered to to the advanced camera as "human control for a human experience."</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expanding on that motto, the packed-in 1080p Kinect 2.0 will be able to process 2GB of data per second, analyzing more joints, the slight rotation of a wrist or shoulder and your heartbeat.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Less is known about the PlayStation 4 Eye, but Sony did state that its similarly shaped camera bar contains two two 1280×800px cameras.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PS4 DualShock 4 controller will come into play with the PS4 Eye thanks to its multi-colored light bar. It will also be compatible with those PS4 Move motion controllers that have gone unused.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: Xbox one</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Second/ Alternate  Screen:</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's tempting to tuck this feature into controllers, since it's obviously a controller-based feature, but this at its heart this is about gameplay. There are simply a ton of unexplored gameplay mechanics that aren't going to be used in a meaningful way with standard controllers. And in that context, the Vita as a controller, while certainly much pricier, is just flatly better than Microsoft's SmartGlass, which is janky and often unusable in its current form.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: PS 4</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Non Gaming Power:</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYAnHa-hot8wRMUHnDWakkGS-19x1jkXpHba2sArGAG8QPvVr4tsa5QZhRyQ7LBIXb7I14SiO5TvoFIYi0yv6GqenXeKNGl2oVsXTSlgn_BAt54TYLfAVdEX6tjyOvmdZjLDHK-CfYUHa/s1600/EPG_FINAL_UI_Bob_610x343.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYAnHa-hot8wRMUHnDWakkGS-19x1jkXpHba2sArGAG8QPvVr4tsa5QZhRyQ7LBIXb7I14SiO5TvoFIYi0yv6GqenXeKNGl2oVsXTSlgn_BAt54TYLfAVdEX6tjyOvmdZjLDHK-CfYUHa/s400/EPG_FINAL_UI_Bob_610x343.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft's first Xbox One event in May was clearly focused on communicating that the Xbox One would be much more than simply a box to play video games on, and began its presentation demoing how the system would integrate with your television.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xbox One will allow you to switch from game to TV show, to the Web, to a movie, to Skype, easily and smoothly (without switching inputs), with just the sound of your voice. You'll also have the ability to multitask, running games and other apps simultaneously.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <br /> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xbox One will not replace your cable box, but will instead allow you to plug your cable box into it, bypassing your cable company's interface, giving you control of live TV through your Xbox One. You'll even be able to create your own personalized "channel" with the shows and services you choose.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: Xbox one</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Online Policy:</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xbox One requires gamers to maintain a constant internet connection. If your Xbox One is disconnected for longer than 24 hours, your games will cease to function. You'll still be able to watch TV, use Blu-rays and surf the web, but your games will be off limit. This has made a lot of gamers very mad, so it's surely a huge advantage for Sony that the PS4 has no such limitations.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unless you're playing online, streaming games or downloading, your PS4 does not need to be connected to the internet. Games will always work regardless.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: PS 4</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <b style="outline-style: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Multiplayer Gaming:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <b style="outline-style: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <b style="outline-style: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With both the consoles integrated to work with the Internet, multiplayer gaming goes to a whole new level. But online multiplayer gaming on next generation gaming consoles does come at a price. From now on online multiplayer gaming on the PS4 will require a $50 annual subscription to PlayStation Plus, something that didn't exist earlier. This is similar to multiplayer gaming on Xbox consoles which have a similar requirement with Xbox Live Gold. Xbox Live Gold, which is required for online multiplayer gaming on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, costs $24.99 for three months and $59.99 for 12 months. So the pricing for the both the services happens to be quite similar.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: be it ps 4 or xbox one if you are willing to pay and play multiplayer gaming then both are up for it.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; outline-style: none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <h3 style="background-color: white; line-height: 1em; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The price:</span></h3> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both consoles will go on sale later this year - the Xbox One certainly in November, with no exact date confirmed for the PS4. We do have confirmed prices though, and again the Sony PS4 looks to be a more attractive prospect.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PS4 will cost $399 in the US, £349 in the UK, €399 in Europe and $549 in Australia.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xbox One, meanwhile, will cost more - $499 in the US, £429 in the UK and $599 in Australia.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Price was always going to be a key battleground, and in these frugal times it will be interesting to see what percentage of gamers are willing to fork out the extra cash for the Xbox. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do note that while the Xbox One ships with the Kinect, the Playstation Eye does not ship with new PlayStation. The PS Eye has been priced separately at US $59. So, if you wish to own a PS4 with the PS Eye, the difference between the pricing of the two will be lesser.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">verdict: PS 4</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Our verdict: PlayStation 4</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">For now, there is just no getting around the PlayStation's less fumbling rollout. All of the Xbox One's good qualities—ease of use in your home, Kinect magnificence, cloud rendering, possibly super easy trade-ins once the license stuff gets sorted out—are off in the future. They're distinct possibilities, but the PS4 is the bird in the hand right now. It's not made of a bunch of hypothetical parts that may or may not come together. Just know that if everything does work out for Microsoft, it's going to be a very impressive alternative.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Place your views in comments below.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; width: 480px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IF you want something to be added or corrected mention in comments. </span></div> <br /></div> <br /></div>

PS 4 vs Xbox One: Comparison

After two exciting events at the E3 gaming conference from  Microsoft  and  Sony  that revealed a slew of details about their forthcom...

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Microsoft reveals the making of Xbox One - Design[Video]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaixjtsvYJanO8hTdj2XcntbnMYU4R3_q4a6dwNLKkZTII1tmcgPxyYEhzNcpT4tvP9wi5t5jYdiGhBvseTyA-fV9GCO3vgvnU7hpkr-UF5Dlw2yngokBzZocfzxY5N6R-A597UPOxVvxD/s1600/Xbox_design_video.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaixjtsvYJanO8hTdj2XcntbnMYU4R3_q4a6dwNLKkZTII1tmcgPxyYEhzNcpT4tvP9wi5t5jYdiGhBvseTyA-fV9GCO3vgvnU7hpkr-UF5Dlw2yngokBzZocfzxY5N6R-A597UPOxVvxD/s320/Xbox_design_video.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 23.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft has released a video called “Xbox One and Design.”</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Carl Ledbetter, Xbox's industrial design creative director, the team started working on the project "in late 2010".<span style="line-height: 22px;">The six-minute long video has members from the<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.mobiledoctors.co/2013/05/xbox-one-gaming-redefined.html">Xbox One</a> </span>design team talking about the different aspects of the design and all they did to make the machine more than just a gaming console.</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1BlhvX0D6ow?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Senior industrial designer Scott Dallmeyer says: "There's a holistic approach to our design language, so you see a lot of details within the console, the sensor product and even in the controller that really tie [into] elements that are happening in the UI [and] the software.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.796875px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="color: #262626;"> "You look at the tiles, you look at the way the content is presented on screen, and a lot of those details are reflected in what's happening on the console. You see the different panels, the way that the very front of the console is a very clean, flat rectangular shape. We did that on purpose. We wanted those details to reflect what's happening on screen and really have that be a reflection of the content and the elements that are happening within the user interface."</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Microsoft's official description of the system, which was released last week alongside the first Xbox hardware trailer, reads:  The console is shaped in the 16:9 aspect ratio and employs a horizontal orientation optimized for its high-speed Blu-ray disc player. It is moulded in a deep and rich liquid black colour and includes a distinctive bevelled edge."</div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #262626;">After last week's</span><a href="http://www.mobiledoctors.co/2013/05/xbox-one-launched.html"><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">Xbox One launch event</span></a><span style="color: #262626;"> was largely used to show off the hardware and and its wider entertainment capabilities, Xbox executives have said Microsoft's E3 conference on June 10 will be "all about the games".</span></div> </div> </div>

Microsoft reveals the making of Xbox One - Design[Video]

Microsoft has released a video called “Xbox One and Design.” According to Carl Ledbetter, Xbox's industrial design creative direc...

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Xbox One will be region-locked

<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-fe5ndiw4JNY/UaLaFM_KihI/AAAAAAAAArQ/PligAH3ffUI/Xbox%252520One%252520will%252520be%252520region-locked_img_1.png"><img height="240px" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-fe5ndiw4JNY/UaLaFM_KihI/AAAAAAAAArQ/PligAH3ffUI/Xbox%252520One%252520will%252520be%252520region-locked_img_1.png" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left cursor: pointer;" width="144px" /></a><br><p dir=ltr><br><br />The Xbox One will be region-locked, meaning all software must match the region of the console itself, Microsoft confirmed to Digital Trends. This means a US Xbox One won't be able to play games imported from Europe or Japan, for example.<br /><p dir=ltr>"Similar to the movie and music industry, games must meet country-specific regulatory guidelines before they are cleared for sale," a Microsoft spokesperson said. "We will continue to work with our partners to follow these guidelines with Xbox One."<br /><p dir=ltr>The Xbox 360 isn't completely region-locked - Microsoft currently allows studios to choose whether their games will work across regions. The PlayStation 3 is region-free, and all games except for Persona 4 Arena work on every console, regardless of spatial location. It's unclear if the PlayStation 4 will be similarly region-free.<br />

Xbox One will be region-locked

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Xbox One:Additional Fee for Used Games, Discs Linked to User Accounts

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <a href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-Next-Gen-2013-Xbox-One-All-in-One-Experience.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #28a0ff; outline: none medium !important;"><img alt="Xbox Next Gen - 2013 - Xbox One - All in One Experience" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-339642" height="354" src="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-Next-Gen-2013-Xbox-One-All-in-One-Experience-630x354.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto 1.5em; max-width: 100%;" width="630" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> Now that the buzz has died down just a tad for the <a href="http://www.mobiledoctors.co/search?q=xbox+one">Xbox One</a>’s unveiling, news has started to spring up regarding the particulars for how games will be installed and played on the new system.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> One piece of that puzzle is how the system will handle used games. In a move that’s rather disappointing for consumers who frequent the secondhand market for their gaming needs, it looks like the Xbox One has a measure in place to thwart that process.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> Xbox One discs will be used to install games onto the system’s hard drive. Those discs will also be linked to the first user account they are installed to. If the original user gives or sells the disc to another gamer, that new gamer must pay a fee to Microsoft in order to install said disc</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> To sum up: if you borrow or buy a used game, you’ll have to hand Microsoft additional money in order to play it on the Xbox One</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> [theverge, wired]</div> </div>

Xbox One:Additional Fee for Used Games, Discs Linked to User Accounts

Now that the buzz has died down just a tad for the Xbox One ’s unveiling, news has started to spring up regarding the particulars for h...

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Xbox ONE: Gaming Redefined

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Ubuntu, 'Droid Arabic Kufi', Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.mobiledoctors.co/search?q=xbox+one">Xbox One</a> is all black and features a two-tone finish with both matte and gloss in equal measure; a slot-loading Blu-ray optical drive sits out front on the left face, while a power button with the traditional incomplete circle symbol is emblazoned on the right side (which looks to be touch-based). A new Kinect was also unveiled, and it powers the console — “Xbox On” is being trumpeted as the most important feature.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Ubuntu, 'Droid Arabic Kufi', Helvetica, Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">“</span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">Team Xbox is on a new mission,” Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment business, said.”And that mission is focused on making this an entertainment console.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Ubuntu, 'Droid Arabic Kufi', Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said the goal is to build a system that lines up games, television and software and that the most important part is that it must be “simple, instant and complete.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Ubuntu, 'Droid Arabic Kufi', Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is time for technology to step behind the curtain and you and your entertainment to take the stage,” Mattrick said. </span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Ubuntu, 'Droid Arabic Kufi', Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yusuf Medhi, senior vice president of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business, unveiled how<strong> </strong>voice input<strong> </strong>can be used to control Xbox One. It will also respond to gesture controls.</span> </div> <br /> <br /> <img alt="microsoft-xbox-one" height="411" src="http://i0.wp.com/igyaan.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/microsoft-xbox-one.jpg?resize=700%2C450" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Gaming:</span><br /> <br /> <h1 class="h1" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"> <img alt="Xbox One - 2013 - Call of Duty - Ghosts - 004" src="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-One-2013-Call-of-Duty-Ghosts-004-630x354.jpg" /></h1> <h1 class="h1" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h1> <h1 class="h1" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Call of Duty: Ghosts:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision, talked a bit about Call of Duty: Ghosts, saying how the game introduces “emotional reality” to the world of gaming. For next-gen systems, Activision said the title is built on an all new engine, which allows for a more realistic and immersive experience.</span></h1> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> In a promo video, the company talked about how it wants to create a more affecting story, not something that just takes players through the typical pray and spray scenarios. You can slide, and you get a dog, which is new for the franchise. Please don’t let that dog die.There’s also dynamic maps that’s changed by player actions, with events such as earthquakes and floods also playing a huge part—and, of course, there’s much deeper character customization. The title is set in the modern day, and pits players in more underdog scenarios where America is crippled.When the game launches, the game will run at 60 fps while remaining detailed and extremely slick. A video shown at the event looked great and smooth, though a bit unimpressive for being a next-gen title. The graphics aren’t necessarily the focus here, however, with smarter AI and the actual gameplay world playing a big part.Microsoft says downloadable content will come to the One before any other system, which is a huge win for the new Xbox.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> </div> <h1 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #39434c; font-family: franklin-gothic-urw-cond, 'Helvetica Condensed Bold', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 50px; line-height: 50px; margin: 5px 0px 7px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> EA announces Ignite engine:</h1> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24.390625px;">EA Sports will bring FIFA 14, NBA Live, Madden 25, and UFC to the Xbox One within the next year.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.984375px;">Over the years, sports games have become more and more realistic and EA is promising to take that realism to a whole new level in next-generation versions of many of its popular sports franchises. At Microsoft's unveiling of the </span>Xbox One<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.984375px;">, Andrew Wilson, the head of EA Sports, announced the company's new Ignite Engine and said that FIFA 14, NBA Live, Madden 25, and UFC would be available for the Xbox One within the next 12 months.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-none" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <a class="lightboxIt" href="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/Xbox_One_EA_Ignite.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="400" src="http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/Xbox_One_EA_Ignite.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="600" /></a><div class="image-caption" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilson said that with 4 times as much processing power to work with, games would feature, "10 times as much animation detail." He promised "true player motion," along with incredibility realistic stadiums that would include 3D crowds, dynamic sidelines, and true "living worlds."</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-none" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <a class="lightboxIt" href="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/XBox_One_UFC.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="400" src="http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/XBox_One_UFC.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="600" /></a><div class="image-caption" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Wilson showed off a short trailer that featured clips from the various titles and the graphics did indeed seem to be a big step up, though it's always hard to make a definitive judgment about a game based on a trailer.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-none" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="400" src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/Xbox_one_Madden.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="600" /><div class="image-caption" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilson didn't say whether these games would be Xbox One launch titles, but new versions of Madden 25 and FIFA 14 are scheduled to launch in the next few months (August/September) for current-gen consoles, so it wouldn't be surprising if Madden and FIFA arrived within the launch window for the Xbox One (and possibly Sony's PS4).</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <h2 style="background-color: white; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exclusive NFL Content Available on Xbox One:</span></h2> </div> <div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <a href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-One-2013-NFL-002.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #28a0ff; outline: none medium !important;"><img alt="Xbox One - 2013 - NFL - 002" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-340278" height="354" src="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-One-2013-NFL-002-630x354.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto 1.5em; max-width: 100%;" width="630" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> Microsoft and the NFL have joined forces to create an exclusive and more streamlined fantasy football experience available through the Xbox One.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> Watching NFL games through the Xbox One will allow you to watch up-to-date stats and interact with your friends from the comfort of your living room</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> </div> <h2 style="color: black; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remedy Quantum Break for Xbox One:</span></h2> <div> <img height="360" src="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-One-2013-Quantum-Break-029-1280x720.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> Microsoft is going to launch a new IP for Xbox One from Remedy entitled Quantum Break.</div> <div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> From the studio that brought you Alan Wake, Remedy is launching a new IP based around a young girl with some sort of mysterious powers. While not much was revealed of the story, it’s clear that the game will continue the recent trend of scary little girls. (i.e. Beyond Two Souls, The Last of Us)</div> </div> </div> <br /> <div> <h2 style="background-color: white; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forza Motorsport 5  for Xbox One:</span></h2> </div> <div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <img alt="Xbox One - 2013 - 15 Exclusives - Microsoft" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-340212" height="354" src="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-One-2013-15-Exclusives-Microsoft-630x354.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px auto 1.5em; max-width: 100%;" width="630" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> Once the Xbox One launches later this year, the console will get 15 exclusives during its first year on the market. Exclusive IP’s often drive sales of consoles—how often have you heard someone say they bought a system just for one game?—so this is a huge deal, especially early on in the One’s life. It’s unclear what titles are being developed at this point, but we’ll likely get more information come E3 in June.</div> <div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> </div> <h2 style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Xbox One Will Get 15 Exclusives In First Twelve Months:</span></h2> <div> <span style="line-height: 19.984375px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft plans eight new franchises for the Xbox One in the first year, a hopeful sign for a platform that’s become too sequel-dependent. Of course, Forza 5 was shown off, but a new game called Quantum Break from the developers of Alan Wake looks like the sort of game we’re more used to seeing from PlayStation: a big-studio design and cinematic feel.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the Xbox One launches later this year, the console will get 15 exclusives during its first year of life.</span></div> </div> <span style="font-size: large;"><div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> Specs:</span><br /> <br /> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Processor and graphics:</strong> as rumored, a heavily customized AMD chip that combines an eight-core CPU, a GPU tailored for DirectX 11.1 graphics and 32MB of high bandwidth embedded ESRAM memory. The 28nm chip will consume around 100 watts, which is slightly higher than current Xbox Slim and PS3, but Microsoft promises noise from the cooling fans will be "four times quieter."</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">System memory<strong>: </strong>a Sony-rivaling 8GB of RAM, although it'll be DDR3 instead of the PlayStation 4's GDDR5.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Audio and video<strong>:</strong> 1080p and 4K both supported; 7.1 surround sound.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Kinect:</strong> This will be bundled with the console and contain 250,000-pixel infrared depth sensor as well as a regular 720p web cam.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Storage and media<strong>:</strong> a 500GB hard drive of unknown speed plus a Blu-ray / DVD combo drive that will be used as little as possible. We're told disc-based games will be ripped to the HDD automatically.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connectivity<strong>:</strong> HDMI 1.4 output and passthrough; a "few" USB 3.0 ports; gigabit Ethernet; plus, three separate 802.11n radios to allow the console to communicate with its controller (over a form of WiFi Direct) as well as other devices (such as perhaps other Windows-based phones and tablets) without losing its connection to the internet. At other times, two radios could be used to maintain a stronger WiFi signal.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the spec you're looking for isn't on this list, that's likely because Microsoft hasn't revealed it yet. </span></div> <div style="color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Xbox ONE OS</span>:</span></div> <div style="color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 1em;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the Microsoft Xbox One has just been announced, the next-generation Xbox will run three operating systems simultaneously. A new revision of the Microsoft Windows 8 /RT designed for tablets, has been re-engineered for the main UI of the Console. This version will be used to run apps like Skype and other non-game titles downloaded from the Xbox storefront. A new virtualization technology similar to Microsoft’s Hyper-V will be used to allocate the bulk of system resources to a second, dedicated “Xbox OS” when the user loads up a game. The Final OS is a sort of mediator between the two operating systems. </span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The triple OS technology will allow the console to have layers on the screen, allowing users to Skype , play games and watch TV simultaneously. These  visual “panes,” which are full 1080p layers generated independently and displayed one on top of the other. </span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whats more coders will be able to convert their apps to work on this Windows variant opening up a whole new marketplace (one of the biggest) for the developers.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Xbox ONE exclusive: Halo Series</span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <img alt="Xbox One - 2013 - Halo - TV Show - Wake Up John - 001" src="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-One-2013-Halo-TV-Show-Wake-Up-John-001-630x354.jpg" /></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: start;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xbox Entertainment Studios, according to Microsoft’s Nancy Tellem, will present 100% personalized television. TV will become social and community driven</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: start;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">Microsoft has clarified that Steven Spielberg will be the executive producer of the new </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">Halo </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">TV series. There's no other news on other creative contributors or when the show might air</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of their first major properties will be a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Halo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">show. 343 Industries and Steven Spielberg will be creating a brand new, live-action </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Halo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">series.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: start;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Halo the Television Series</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will be on the Xbox One.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: start;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Xbox 360 : no backward compatibility</span></span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: start;"> <img height="299" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8dlMmRDNsyBAkaEIpI4sga61DuCKxlujI3vHBeyGMI0-wsy4U" width="400" /></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: start;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's true: the Xbox One will not play your Xbox 360 game discs, nor will your Xbox Live Arcade games transfer (not to mention any other content that's dependent on the 360's hardware architecture, anyhow). That Gamerscore you've been earning, though? That's gonna transfer. As will your Xbox Live Gamertag.Sadly, due to the x86 architecture of the Xbox One, the PowerPC-based 360 titles simply won't run on the hardware. Microsoft's not super worried about consumer reaction, though, telling Engadget, "We care very much about the investment people have made in Xbox 360 and will continue to support it with a pipeline of new games and new apps well into the future," a Microsoft rep told us. That said, Xbox One is designed, "to play an entirely new generation of games -- games that are architected to take full advantage of state-of-the-art processors and the infinite power of the cloud."</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: start;"> </div> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph4" style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But while Sony is promising that PlayStation 4 users will indeed be able to play PlayStation 3 games at some point, by streaming them from the cloud, Microsoft is not promising any such thing for Xbox One. When we specifically asked Whitten whether the company had any streaming option or download option for existing Xbox 360 games for the Xbox One, he confirmed that there was no such thing in the works at Microsoft.</span></div> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph5" style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft does, however, plan to keep selling the Xbox 360 alongside the new console for the foreseeable future. "This isn't about getting rid of the Xbox 360," Whitten said. Perhaps the lack of backwards compatibility will be good for business there.</span></div> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph5" style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Xbox Live:</span></div> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph5" style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Xbox One was just announced, and with it, Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox Live. The service will include more capabilities, such as Skype and a dedicated game DVR for capturing in-game footage.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Xbox Live will feature native editing and sharing tools for editing players' game footage, letting them upload footage to the cloud, though the amount of storage space available has yet to be specified.</div> <div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-none" style="border: 0px; clear: both; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="400" src="http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/f8b25def-64f5-45a1-aeaa-dc9fbdbb39f7.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="600" /><br /> <div class="image-caption" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marc Whitten, corporate vice president of Xbox Live, said achievements will become "dynamic and changing" and show others "how you play not just what you've done."</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whitten said that the number of Live servers will this year reach more than 300,000, up from the current 15,000. He said the computing power behind Live on the Xbox One will equal the amount of computing power available in the whole world in 1999.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whitten said that game designers can take advantage of the enhanced power and provide bigger online games with more players.</span><br /> <br /> <b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">SmartGlass</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px;"> :</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.984375px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tablet-based SmartGlass experience will be around on Xbox One, and will work as before with a variety of phones and tablets. Baked-in Wi-Fi Direct on the Xbox One will allow Bluetooth-like direct communication between external devices, which could come in handy for other future peripherals, too. Second screens will be a major method of interacting with the Xbox One, but details were scarce at the Xbox event--how will it be better than, and more profound than, SmartGlass as it currently exists</span></span></div> <br /> <br /> <h1 class="productTitle" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #39434c; line-height: 48px; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 17px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TV on Xbox</b> :</span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Xbox is going to be the next water cooler.” That was said during the Xbox event to discuss the Xbox One's role as a social TV platform. To that end, it sounds like Microsoft is developing TV shows and original programming for the Xbox One, making a greater leap into Netflix-like original programming. Steven Spielberg announced a new Halo TV series, and the NFL demonstrated some level of interaction with fantasy stats and Skyping with NFL broadcasts.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-none" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="400" src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/XboxOne1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="600" /></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Availability</b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Xbox One will be available "later this year," so that means 2013 after all. Price and a specific date will have to wait...after all, E3 is just weeks away. After all, there are still several things about the Xbox One we don't know...and would like to.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div> </h1> <div> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, 'Droid Arabic Kufi', Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <img alt="Xbox Next Gen - 2013 - Controller - Specs" src="http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xbox-Next-Gen-2013-Controller-Specs-630x354.jpg" /><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph0" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> The newly-designed <a href="http://www.mobiledoctors.co/2013/05/xbox-one-launched.html">Xbox One</a> hardware will come with a redesigned controller, Microsoft revealed today at its next-generation Xbox event in Redmond, Washington.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">It comes with over 40 new design features</span></div> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph0" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <br /></div> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Microsoft says its console gamepad has been "refreshed with more than 40 technical and design innovations," including an updated directional pad, thumb stick, integrated battery compartment, and an "ergonomic fit." That includes new "vibrating impulse triggers" designed to provide feedback to players' fingertips.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Microsoft says it was designed with core gamers in mind.</span></div> <div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph2" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Microsoft says the new controller is designed to work closely with the new Kinect, "allowing the two to be paired automatically to create seamless player syncing." That synchronization will be enabled by Wi-Fi Direct technology that pairs the controller with the new system.</div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <img height="423" src="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/8234455/one_hardware_verge_super_wide.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <img alt="Screen_shot_2013-05-21_at_1" src="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2655699/Screen_Shot_2013-05-21_at_1.10.33_PM.png" /><br /> <br /> <img height="423" src="http://cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/8234405/onecontroller1_verge_super_wide.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></div>

Xbox ONE controller: Beast

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img height="264" src="http://cdn0.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/8234299/one_1_verge_super_wide.jpg" width="400" /><br /> <br /> <img src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/21/XBOX-EVENT-3.jpg" /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.984375px;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mi</span>crosoft on Tuesday unveiled the </span>Xbox<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.984375px;"> One, the newest version of its popular game console.</span></span><br /> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, said the company wanted to design and build the "ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system."</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft currently is hosting its special next-generation Xbox event at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters. The company last introduced a new gaming console, the Xbox 360, in 2005. Since that time, the Xbox has become the best-selling game console in the country, with consumers spending $208 million on hardware, software, and accessories for the Xbox in April.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the new Xbox launch comes as the game console business faces an uncertain future. More and more people are turning to mobile devices and the Web for gaming, and that has resulted in weaker console sales. The Nintendo Wii U, which includes a tablet-like game controller that doubles as a second screen, has faced tepid interest since launching late last year. Sony, meanwhile, unveiled its Playstation 4 in February, but the device isn't expected to hit the market until the fall.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To help attract buyers and become more of a living room staple, Microsoft has been incorporating more entertainment capabilities into the Xbox, including new media-streaming functionality. The company is expected to provide more details about new entertainment features of the Xbox throughout Tuesday's event.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">Xbox One also includes</span> Microsoft's Skype Xbox application<span style="line-height: 23px;"> with group video calling. Notifications display on the Xbox Home dashboard with a Snap Mode that lets you video call while you're watching movies. A new Xbox One Guide includes voice control search and navigation, and the ability to add favorites and see what type of content is trending. Voice commands like "watch CBS" navigate directly to the relevant content.</span></span></div> <br /> </div>

Xbox ONE Launched

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